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Rao-Wald Test for Variance Ratios of a General Linear Model

  • Li, Seung-Chun;Huh, Moon-Yul
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.11-24
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    • 1999
  • In this paper we propose a method to test $\textit{H}$:$\rho_i$=$\gamma_i$ for 1$\leq$$\textit{i}$$\leq$$\ell$ against $\textit{K}$:$\rho_i$$\neq$$\gamma_i$ for some iin k-variance component random or mixed linear model where $\rho$i denotes the ratio of the i-th variance component to the error variance and $\ell$$\leq$K. The test which we call Rao-Wald test is exact and does not depend upon nuisance parameters. From a numerical study of the power performance of the test of the interaction effect for the case of a two-way random model Rao-Wald test was seen to be quite comparable to the locally best invariant (LBI) test when the nuisance parameters of the LBI test are assumed known. When the nuisance parameters of the LBI test are replaced by maximum likelihood estimators Rao-Wald test outperformed the LBI test.

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New Wald Test Compared with Chen and Fienberg's for Testing Independence in Incomplete Contingency Tables

  • Kang, Shin-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2005
  • In $I{\times}J$ incomplete contingency tables, the test of independence proposed by Chen and Fienberg(1974) uses $I{\times}J-1$ instead of (I-1)(J-1) degrees of freedom without providing much of an increase in the value of the test statistic. For these reasons, Chen and Fienberg tests are expected to have less power. New Wald test statistic related to the part of Chen and Fienberg test statistic is proposed using delta method. These two tests are compared through Monte Carlo studies.

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ON TESTING THE EQUALITY OF THE COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATION IN TWO INVERSE GAUSSIAN POPULATIONS

  • Choi, Byung-Jin;Kim, Kee-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.93-101
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    • 2003
  • This paper deals with testing the equality of the coefficients of variation in two inverse Gaussian populations. The likelihood ratio, Lagrange-multiplier and Wald tests are presented. Monte-Carlo simulations are performed to compare the powers of these tests. In a simulation study, the likelihood ratio test appears to be consistently more powerful than the Lagrange-multiplier and Wald tests when sample size is small. The powers of all the tests tend to be similar when sample size increases.

Performance Improvement of Wald Test for Resolving GPS Integer Ambiguity Using a Baseline-Length Constraint

  • Lee Eun-Sung;Chun Se-Bum;Lee Young-Jae;Kang Tea-Sam;Jee Gyu-In;Abdel-Hafez Mamoun F.
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.333-343
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, the baseline-length information is directly modeled as a measurement for the Wald test, which speeds up the resolution convergence of the integer ambiguity of GPS carrier phase measurements. The convergent speed improvement is demonstrated using numerical simulation and real experiments. It is also shown that the integer ambiguities can be resolved using only four actual satellite measurements with very reasonable convergence speed, if the baseline-length information is used just like one additional observable satellite measurement. Finally, it is shown that the improvement of convergence speed of the Wald test is due to the increase of the probability ratio with the use of the baseline-length constraint.

Performance Improvement of the Wald Test for GPS RTK with the Assistance of INS

  • Abdel-Hafez, Mamoun F.;Kim, Dae-Je;Lee, Eun-Sung;Chun, Se-Bum;Lee, Young-Jae;Kang, Tae-Sam;Sung, Sang-Kyung
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.534-543
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    • 2008
  • To use the Global Positioning System (GPS) carrier phase measurement for precise positioning, the integer ambiguities at the early stage of most algorithms must be determined. Furthermore, if a precise positioning is to be applied to real time navigation, fast determination and validation methods for integer ambiguity are essential. In this paper, the Wald test that simultaneously determines and validates integer ambiguities is used with assistance of the Inertial Navigation System (INS) to improve its performance. As the Wald test proceeds, it assigns a higher probability to the candidate that is considered to be true at each time step. The INS information is added during the Wald test process. Large performance improvements were achieved in convergence time as well as in requiring fewer observable GPS satellites. To test the performance improvement of the Wald test with the INS information, experimental tests were conducted using a ground vehicle. The vehicle moved in a prescribed trajectory and observed seven GPS satellites. To verify the effect of the INS information on the Wald test, the convergence times were compared with cases that considered the INS information and cases that did not consider the INS information. The results show that the benefits of using the INS were emphasized as fewer GPS satellites were observable. The performance improvement obtained by the proposed algorithm was shown through the fast convergence to the true hypothesis when using the INS measurements.

Empirical Analysis on Rao-Scott First Order Adjustment for Two Population Homogeneity test Based on Stratified Three-Stage Cluster Sampling with PPS

  • Heo, Sunyeong
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.208-213
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    • 2014
  • National-wide and/or large scale sample surveys generally use complex sample design. Traditional Pearson chi-square test is not appropriate for the categorical complex sample data. Rao-Scott suggested an adjustment method for Pearson chi-square test, which uses the average of eigenvalues of design matrix of cell probabilities. This study is to compare the efficiency of Rao-Scott first order adjusted test to Wald test for homogeneity between two populations using 2009 Gyeongnam regional education offices's customer satisfaction survey (2009 GREOCSS) data. The 2009 GREOCSS data were collected based on stratified three-stage cluster sampling with probability proportional to size. The empirical results show that the Rao-Scott adjusted test statistic using only the variances of cell probabilities is very close to the Wald test statistic, which uses the covariance matrix of cell probabilities, under the 2009 GREOCSS data based. However it is necessary to be cautious to use the Rao-Scott first order adjusted test statistic in the place of Wald test because its efficiency is decreasing as the relative variance of eigenvalues of the design matrix of cell probabilities is increasing, specially more when the number of degrees of freedom is small.

Comparison between homogeneity test statistics for panel AR(1) model (패널 1차 자기회귀과정들의 동질성 검정 통계량 비교)

  • Lee, Sung Duck;Kim, Sun Woo;Jo, Na Rae
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.123-132
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    • 2016
  • We can achieve the principle of parsimony and efficiency if homogeneity for panel time series model is satisfied. We suggest a Rao test statistic and a Wald test statistic for the test of homogeneity for panel AR(1) and derived the limit distribution. We performed a simulation to examine statistics with the same chisquare distribution when number of the individual is small and in common with large. We also simulated to compare the empirical power of the statistics in a small panel. In application, we fit panel AR(1) model using regional monthly economical active population data and test homogeneity for panel AR(1). It is satisfied homogeneity, so it could be fitted AR(1) using the sample mean at the time point. We also compare the power of prediction between each individual and pooled model.

Comparison of confidence intervals for testing probabilities of a system (시스템의 확률 값 시험을 위한 신뢰구간 비교 분석)

  • Hwang, Ik-Soon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.435-443
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    • 2010
  • When testing systems that incorporate probabilistic behavior, it is necessary to apply test inputs a number of times in order to give a test verdict. Interval estimation can be used to assert the correctness of probabilities where the selection of confidence interval is one of the important issues for quality of testing. The Wald interval has been widely accepted for interval estimation. In this paper, we compare the Wald interval and the Agresti-Coull interval for various sizes of samples. The comparison is carried out based on the test pass probability of correct implementations and the test fail probability of incorrect implementations when these confidence intervals are used for probability testing. We consider two-sided confidence intervals to check if the probability is close to a given value. Also one-sided confidence intervals are considered in the comparison in order to check if the probability is not less than a given value. When testing probabilities using two-sided confidence intervals, we recommend the Agresti-Coull interval. For one-sided confidence intervals, the Agresti-Coull interval is recommended when the size of samples is large while either one of two confidence intervals can be used for small size samples.

Testing for Grouped Heteroscedasticity in Linear Regression Model

  • Song, Seuck Heun;Choi, Moon Kyung
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.475-484
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    • 2004
  • This paper consider the testing problem of grouped heteroscedasticity in the linear regression model. We provide the Lagrange Multiplier(LM), Wald, Likelihood Ratio (LR) test statistis for testing of grouped heteroscedasticity. Monte Carlo experiments are conducted to study the performance of these tests.

On Tests for Marginal Homogeneity (주변동질성 검정법의 비교분석)

  • 강민희;박태성;이성곤
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.211-221
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    • 2001
  • 본 논문에서는 2$\times$2 분할표의 주변동질성 검정에서 사용될 수 있는 통계량들을 소개하고, 이 통계량들을 비교하였다. 먼저 주변동질성 검정에 민감하게 영향을 주는 모수를 정의한 후에 이 모수들의 효과를 예시하였다. 또한 이 모수들을 이용하여 모의실험을 통해여러 검정법들을 비교해본 결과 McNemar 검정이 다른 검정력보다 더 좋은 성질을 가지고 있음을 보였다.

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